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Well, in my last post on the subject, I had let my allegiance to Bloglines mobile fall by the way side as I picked up my new fancy: Google Reader mobile. I found that for all of the nice-new-ness of Google Reader, I was consuming less articles in the same amount of time.

So I decided to peek back at Bloglines mobile and they had restored their original functionality...I so hoped for some minor upgrades (image resizing, pagination anyone?), but none were found. They just fixed the glaring header bug.

Sigh...I'll have to wait for some decent pagination I suppose. 15-20 posts per page with image resizing would be just about right in my opinion. I could scan through a quick set of posts, reload and take an eye break, and continue scanning away.

Can someone please fix this (I know doubtful since Bloglines makes no money off of their mobile offering).

Well, in my last post on the subject, I had let my allegiance to Bloglines mobile fall by the way side as I picked up my new fancy: Google Reader mobile. I found that for all of the nice-new-ness of Google Reader, I was consuming less articles in the same amount of time.

So I decided to peek back at Bloglines mobile and they had restored their original functionality...I so hoped for some minor upgrades (image resizing, pagination anyone?), but none were found. They just fixed the glaring header bug.

Sigh...I'll have to wait for some decent pagination I suppose. 15-20 posts per page with image resizing would be just about right in my opinion. I could scan through a quick set of posts, reload and take an eye break, and continue scanning away.

Can someone please fix this (I know doubtful since Bloglines makes no money off of their mobile offering).

Does Bloglines mobile blow or suck these days? They have some html rendering bug that seems to leave the h2 and anchor tag unclosed for each blog post's heading. As you can imagine, giant underlined text has been arriving over the EVDO for days and I finally got tired of waiting for a fix (yes, I reported the bug several days ago...they said they were on it).



I decided to try Google Reader mobile out. It works a little differently, but I sure like it. With Bloglines, you would choose a blog, then they'd list all of the posts for that blog (up to 200 posts a time!). With the EVDO connection it was not terribly slow, but pushing several megs to the phone makes it perform terribly.



With Google Reader, they just push all of the post titles into a big list so it all gets jumbled together. I kinda like it though since you get a nice mix of stuff. Then when you click the post title, Google loads the single post. They allow you to add stars with only one page load (Bloglines takes two page loads then it marks eveything in that feed read...going back twice sometimes mantains your state sometimes, but sometimes not). Anyway, Google reader looks promising...maybe Bloglines will fix their bugs and add pagination (that's what will bring me back).



Sent from my Window Mobile 5 Pocket PC.

I've been a big fan of Bloglines since it allowed me universal access just about everywhere I went. But now I have a new love. I've been using reBlog for a while now, but not really to repost content from elsewhere (which is what it is intended for), but as a RSS aggregator and reader.

Bloglines has the ability to list your blogroll which reBlog does not have (maybe someday), but reBlog has the ability to let you edit, tag, and repost blog posts from your feed. Granted reBlog does require you install stuff and can be a little hairy, but there is a nice plug in that works with Movable Type that make reBlogging posts a piece of cake.

The cool part is that I can keep my Bloglines account for my blogroll and just keep using reBlog as my primary feed reader. I'm going to have to prune the Bloglines list down a little as I just don't read all of the blogs listed there anymore. This is in an effort to, you know, go outside and see the world once in a while.